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Walgreens And Kroger Widen Retail Partnership

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With an expansion of a retail partnership between The Kroger Co. and Walgreens Boots Alliance, a Kroger Express grocery assortment and the Kroger Pickup service will come to 35 Walgreens locations in the Knoxville, Tennessee market. ” The report comes as news surfaced in December of last year that The Kroger Co.

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Cardtronics Expands Surcharge-Free ATM Footprint

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Allpoint Network , a surcharge-free ATM network with 43,000 ATMs in the United States, announced the latest bank to join its ATM channel — First Tennessee Bank. The move will also add more than 570 surcharge-free ATMs to the bank’s existing network in Tennessee.

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KFC To Offer Meatless Fried Chicken At Select Locations

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Fried chicken fast-food restaurant KFC is partnering with Beyond Meat to bring meatless fried chicken to stores in Tennessee and North Carolina, according to a report by Reuters. The meat will be tested for a few months in stores throughout Nashville, Tennessee and Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Here’s How The Opioid Crisis Is Losing Retailers $9B A Year

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Major retailers such as Target, Home Depot, Walmart and Lowe’s have been forced to introduce stricter return, store credit and gift card policies in response to a troubling trend. Booth has been arrested twice for retail return fraud related to gift cards and is now in recovery from heroin and oxycodone addiction at Gateway with Smith.

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Deutsche Bank, PNC Plan To Reduce Brick-And-Mortar Bank Branch Footprints

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The financial institution said per the report that it would shutter approximately 100 locations throughout the nation, which would shrink its domestic offices to roughly 400. The company has opened a minimum of 13 “solutions centers” in places such as Nashville, Tennessee and Dallas that provide an alternative to the usual bank office.

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Walmart Curbs Opiate Prescriptions

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The decision is intended to both prevent fraud and reduce errors, the retailer said. The news comes as major retailers like Target , Home Depot , Walmart and Lowe’s have been forced to introduce stricter return, store credit and gift card policies in response to a troubling trend.

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Using Gift Cards To Buy Drugs: How Return Fraud Is Funding The Opioid Crisis

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Thieves simply walk into Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowe’s or another big-name retailer, steal an item, return it at a different store without a receipt and receive a gift card in return, which they can then turn around and sell to a pawn shop or secondary store for a lower price. Police and retailers are catching on to the issue.

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